Instructors

Rebecca Martin – Founder and Chief Executive Officer of dearjane.info

Rebecca Martin, founder of California based dear jane…, a career advisement company…, believes that people can succeed in landing the “perfect” job if they can first identify what is right for them.

As a corporate recruiter in Silicon Valley in the ’90s, Rebecca saw firsthand the personal and professional disorientation of thousands of workers displaced when the tech bubble burst. From this unique vantage point, Rebecca analyzed corporate clients’ hiring processes; job applicants’ resume-writing abilities and interviewing skills; and hiring managers’ practices and procedures.

By 2002, Rebecca had identified a pivotal factor in the success — or failure — of an individual in his or her chosen career: the ability to articulate a personal vision.

In 2004 Rebecca launched dear jane… with a proprietary career advisement program that includes career assessment, resume writing, interviewing methodologies, and compensation and other negotiations and much more.

Today, dear jane… develops and delivers career management training classes, workshops, seminars, and coaching to Fortune 1000 companies as well as individuals throughout the United States. Since its inception, dear jane… has enjoyed a 98% success rate in coaching clients through career transitions, successful interviewing, salary negotiations, and the like.

Rebecca’s speaking engagements take her to college career centers, job search work groups, professional association meetings, job fairs, Employment Development Department offices, and One-Stop Career Centers. She is an official Trainer for the US Government Employment Development Department (EDD).

A USC graduate with a B.S. in Business Administration, Rebecca has written and published the booklet “83 Tips on How to Successfully Work with Corporate and External Recruiters.” She belongs to the Women’s National Book Association. She has recently appeared as a Career Consultant to the View from the Bay San Francisco’s ABC afternoon show.

Nina Amir is a seasoned journalist, nonfiction editor, author, publishing consultant.

Nina Amir is a seasoned journalist, nonfiction editor, author, publishing consultant, and writing coach with more than 30 years of experience in the publishing field. She is the founder of Write Nonfiction in November, a blog and writing challenge, and currently writes three other blogs, including her newest, How to Blog a Book. She also serves as the national Jewish Issue Examiner at Examiner. com and is a staff writer at Grocery Headquarters magazine. Additionally, she holds the post of director of public relations and outreach for Cyberjudaism.org. Nina’s degree in magazine journalism for Syracuse University’s respected S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications gave her the training she needed to work as both a writer and an editor. She has edited or written for more than 45 local, national and international magazines, newspapers, e-zines, and newsletters on a full-time or freelance basis. Her essays have been published in five anthologies and can be found in numerous e-zines and Internet article directories. She also has a proven track record as a book editor; one of her client’s books (Enlightened Leadership) was self-published and then purchased and re-released verbatim by Simon & Schuster (Fireside) and another (Radical Forgiveness) won the 1998 Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Award (Inspirational category), received a contract from William Morrow but remained self-published and went on to sell over 115,000 copies; recently Radical Forgiveness was purchased by Sounds True. Another of her client’s books (Finding Heaven Here) recently was purchased by O-Books. Her client’s book proposals also regularly get picked up by agents. In addition, Nina is an inspirational speaker, spiritual and conscious creation coach, teacher, and the regular holiday and spirituality expert on Conversations with Mrs. Claus, a weekly podcast heard in more than 90 countries and downloaded by 110,000 listeners per month. Through her writing and speaking, Amir offers human potential, personal growth and practical spiritual tools from a Jewish perspective, although her work spans religious lines and is pertinent to people of all faiths and spiritual traditions.
Nina offers writing, editing, writing coaching, publishing consulting, and ghostwriting services, as well as talks, workshops and teleseminars on writing and publishing, through CopyWrightcommunications. If you are interested in her speaking or teaching on human potential, personal growth and practical spirituality, you can contact her through Pure Spirit Creations.
Nina Amir
Author, Speaker, Journalist, Nonfiction Editor/Coach/Consultant
Pure Spirit Creations and CopyWright Communications

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